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Soil-Water Characteristic Curve of Sandy Soils Containing Biopolymer Solution

바이오폴리머를 포함한 모래지반의 흙-습윤 특성곡선 연구

  • Jung, Jongwon (School of Civil Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
  • Received : 2018.08.14
  • Accepted : 2018.09.28
  • Published : 2018.10.01
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Abstract

Soil-water characteristic curve, which is called soil retention curve, is required to explore water flows in unsaturated soils, relative permeability of water in multi-phase fluids flow, and change to stiffness and volume of soils. Thus, the understanding of soil-water characteristic curves of soils help us explore the behavior of soils inclduing fluids. Biopolymers are environmental-friendly materials, which can be completely degraded by microbes and have been believed not to affect the nature. Thus, various biopolymers such as deacetylated power, polyethylene oxide, xanthan gum, alginic acid sodium salt, and polyacrylic acid have been studies for the application to soil remediation, soil improvement, and enhanced oil recovery. PAA (polyacrylic acid) is one of biopolymers, which have shown a great effect in enhanced oil recovery as well as soil remediation because of the improvement of water-flood performance by mobility control. The study on soil-water characteristic curves of sandy soils containing PAA (polyacrylic acid) has been conducted through experimentations and theoretical models. The results show that both capillary entry pressure and residual water saturation dramatically increase according to the increased concentration of PAA (polyacrylic acid). Also, soil-water characteristic curves by theoretical models are quite well consistent with the results by experimental studies. Thus, soil-water characteristic curves of sandy soils containing biopolymers such as PAA (polyacrylic acid) can be estimated using fitting parameters for the theoretical model.

흙-습윤 특성곡선은 불포화토에서 물의 흐름, 다상유체에서의 상대투수계수, 그리고 흙의 강성 및 부피 변화를 이해하는데 필수적이다. 바이오폴리머는 미생물에 완전 분해가 가능한 자연에 무해한 친환경 물질이다. 따라서, 치토산, 폴리에틸렌 옥사이드, 잔탄검, 알지네이트염 및 폴리아크릴산 등과 같은 바이오폴리머가 지반복원, 지반성능향상 및 오일생산증진을 위해 연구되어왔다. 폴리아크릴산(polyacrylic acid)은 바이오폴리머의 일종으로, 유체의 흐름 특성 향상을 통하여 오일생산증진 및 지반복원 등의 분야에서 우수한 성능을 보여왔다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 폴리아크릴산(polyacrylic acid)을 포함한 모래의 흙-습윤 특성곡선의 이해하기 위해서 실내시험을 수행하고, 이론적 모델의 매개변수 변화를 연구하였다. 그 결과, 폴리아크릴산(polyacrylic acid)의 농도가 증가함에 따라, 포화된 모래에 주입되는 공기의 주입 모세관압력이 증가함을 보이고, 높은 모세관압력에서의 잔류 함수비 역시 증가하고 있음을 보였다. 또한, 이론식 모델의 매개변수를 구하였으며, 이를 활용한 흙-습윤 특성곡선이 실내 실험 결과와 잘 일치하고 있음을 보였다. 따라서, 이론적 모델의 매개변수를 알고 있으면, 본 연구에서 활용된 폴리아크릴산(polyacrylic acid)이외의 바이오폴리머를 포함한 모래 지반의 흙-습윤 특성곡선이 예측이 가능함을 설명하였다.

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